To Suwon

From the love motel, I was driven by the director to Suwon, which is where I'll be working. Suwon is a suburban city of one million people just 25 kilometers south of Seoul. It's connected by subway, and it doesn't cost more than 950 \ to get back to Seocho, which is less than a Canadian dollar. These pictures are from the drive down there, which took about two hours.

Okay, apparently I didn't resize this one.

Here is the entrance to Suwon. If you look on the left side of the arch, you can make out a little sign that says "Happy Suwon."

The apartment buildings in this area tend to be about 25 storeys high and sort of look like gigantic grain silos. I hope in this picture you can tell how narrow these buildings are.

This is a pretty standard view of Suwon.

There was still snow on the ground.

Look, colour.

Ever wanted to know how to say "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" in Korean?

Because the city is so flat, we get some pretty impressive sunsets.

This is my kitchen, what you would see when you open the front door to my apartment.

Unlike the motel, the washroom here doesn't even have a designated corner where you can bathe, just a sink, toilet, and showerhead.

I still haven't figured out my thermostat yet. The first morning I woke up, I'd turned the floor heater to 75 degrees Celsius; that's the knob in the lower left corner.